Prof. Gene-Wei Li

A biophysicist, Professor Li studies how bacteria optimize the levels of proteins they produce at both mechanistic and systems levels. His lab focuses on design principles of transcription, translation, and RNA maturation. Li joined the Department of Biology in 2015 after completing a postdoc at the University of California at San Francisco. He earned an B.S. in physics from National Tsinghua University in 2004 and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 2010.